[1] The species is widespread in parts of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Britain, North Germany, Spain, Bulgaria and Russia.

[2] They feed of the stem of tansies and form large colonies there.

On average a single insect produces 1 milligram of honeydew per hour.

Compared to other aphids ants prefer collecting honeydew from Metopeurum fuscoviride.

[3] Large colonies often get destroyed by parasitoids of the order Hymenoptera.